Abstract
The importance of carbon monoxide poisoning would seem sufficient to warrant the presentation of a typical case exhibiting the usual late results, and a discussion of the chief features of this exceedingly common condition. According to McNally,1in the years from 1919 to 1926 inclusive there were sixty-three deaths in Cook County due to exposure to automobile exhausts. It is stated by the same authority that the automobile exhaust contains from 1.16 to 6.62 per cent of carbon monoxide. Yant, Jacobs and Berger, as quoted by McNally, estimate that a five passenger car idling at 200 revolutions per minute for sixty minutes in a garage containing 2,950 cubic feet of air will produce a carbon monoxide concentration of 2.1 per cent. A concentration of 0.15 per cent is stated by Haggard and Henderson2to be highly dangerous even for brief exposures. The daily press is constantly publishing accounts
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